/kaɪl/
OriginFrom French, from Late Latin chȳlus, from Ancient Greek χυλός (khulós, “animal or plant juice”).
- countable, uncountableA digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.
“1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 524,
It is said that when the tidings were brought him, he was a”
“And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, chyle, blood, dung, earth, food: have to feed it like stoking an engine.”
Formschyles(plural)